Seven tales in search of a translator: the adventure of Corpo de baile in French

Authors

  • Márcia Valéria Martinez de Aguiar Pós-Doutoranda Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2014.2.15569

Keywords:

Guimarães Rosa, Reception, Translation, Correspondence, Publisher

Abstract

The preparation of the notes to the correspondence exchanged between João Guimarães Rosa and his French translator Jean Jacques Villard has taken us to enlarge our understanding of the reception and translation of the writer’s work in France during the sixties. One of the points of that process which has always aroused in us a certain perplexity, and that the letters between the writer and his translator were not able to clarify, was about how they got in touch with each other. The inquiry we undertook from the name of Michel Chodkievicz, Seuil’s publisher, responsible for the printing of João Guimarães Rosa’s works, has taken us not only to answer that question, but also to understand the fundamental role that a publisher’s personal commitment to a work played in the publishing of Corpo de Baile in France in that time.

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Author Biography

Márcia Valéria Martinez de Aguiar, Pós-Doutoranda Universidade de São Paulo

Márcia Valéria Martinez de Aguiar é tradutora e professora de francês. Em seu doutorado (FFLCH-USP) procurou desvendar o ritmo das duas versões francesas de Grande sertão: veredas. Atualmente, com o apoio da FAPESP, realiza uma pesquisa de pós-doutorado sobre a correspondência entre João Guimarães Rosa e seu tradutor francês Jean-Jacques Villard, preparando-a para futura publicação. Entre outras obras, traduziu Zadig, de Voltaire, e Fragmentos de um discurso amoroso, de Roland Barthes.

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2014-06-09

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de Aguiar, M. V. M. (2014). Seven tales in search of a translator: the adventure of Corpo de baile in French. Letras De Hoje, 49(2), 172–179. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2014.2.15569

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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2014): Letter and(in) Literary Files: Critical Approach Perspectives

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Cartas e(m) Arquivos

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